The benefit of placement firms
Why do companies use placement firms to find IT contractors instead of using internal recruiters?
Who better to answer that question...
2013-07-16
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James Serra's Blog
I’ll take “Products that start with Power”, Alex
FYI:
Geoflow (see Geoflow Preview for Excel 2013) is now called Power Map, and Data Explorer (see Microsoft Data Explorer) is now called...
2013-07-11
883 reads
Power BI for Office 365
Announced at Microsoft’s Worldwide Partner Conference 2013 is Power BI for Office 365:
Power BI for Office 365 is a cloud-based business intelligence...
2013-07-09
1,502 reads
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) – June 2013 update
SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) has a new update:
VS 2010: June 2013 version: 10.3.30618.1, December 2012 version: 10.3.21208.0, November 2012 version:...
2013-07-02
2,114 reads
Visual Studio 2013 preview available
Wow, Visual Studio 2012 is just out of diapers and here comes the next version!
Microsoft officials released the preview of...
2013-06-27
1,612 reads
SQL Server 2014 CTP1 is here!
As I mentioned in my blog post describing the new features in the next version of SQL Server (see SQL Server...
2013-06-25
1,210 reads
TechEd North America 2013 videos online
Microsoft has posted ALL the session videos for TechEd North America 2013 and they are available for free! What a...
2013-06-20
795 reads
Low-rate recruiters – The bane of my existence
There is nothing more annoying to me in my profession than getting calls and emails from recruiters who are looking...
2013-06-18
1,460 reads
Presentation Slides for Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture
Thanks to everyone who attended my session “Building an Effective Data Warehouse Architecture” for Pragmatic Works. There were over 500 attendees! The abstract...
2013-06-14
1,251 reads
Levels in IT consultancy
The Big 5 IT consulting companies (Accenture, Deloitte Consulting, PwC (formerly PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP), KPMG, Ernst & Young) have various titles given to consultants along...
2013-06-13
1,039 reads
Blogs
From Couch-Potato to Triathlete – and What This Means for Your SQL Server
Do you know if your SQL Server is really running at its best? To...
Retro Data 2025 – Slidedeck
You can find the slides of my session on the €100 DWH in Azure...
The Book of Redgate: We Value Teams
By Steve Jones
This value is something that I still hear today: our best work is done...
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Single User SQL Server on Linux
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